Flow Failure Notifications (Power Automate)

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Tyler Kolota

Күн бұрын

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@victordauden9173 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding.It should be an official documentation template. Hats off to you sir

@tylerkolota 2 жыл бұрын

I submitted it as a template, so we’ll see 😊

@chikombechela2460 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!! So helpful!

@kanurikrvk974 9 ай бұрын

Hey, what you've created is awesome. Thank you. But just one question though, is this still going to work even If I have a giant power automate flow and use this flow at the end? cause from what I see you've composed all your action in one scope and I think my flow is divided into several if conditions in between and so on. Like for example action1->action 2->action 3 ->if condition and likewise

@tylerkolota 9 ай бұрын

Yes. As long as it is placed at the end of the flow past any potential parallel branches and with the set run-after conditions then it will trigger when any preceding action in the flow fails & skips the actions between the failed action & the failure notification scope. If you want to test it you can put a Compose action in any of your branches & set an expression in it to div(1,0) to create a divide by 0 error on that branch & see what happens with the notification at the end of the flow.

@kanurikrvk974 9 ай бұрын

@@tylerkolota I appreciate you giving the reply. can't wait to try this out. cheers!!

@MarcWinter 4 ай бұрын

@@tylerkolota Many thanks for pointing this out! I was under the assumption that "run after" refers to the directly previous step. (The interface suggests so: it shows the previous step left to the checkboxes for is successful, has failed etc.) Nonetheless, it works as you said. One addition, though: this does not work when you're testing a flow via "Test" in the editor - in this case, it doesn't trigger the Error-Scope, but sticks to the location where the error really occurred. (This is perfectly ok, because you can debug it better then, but might irritate a bit when applying your solution)

@tylerkolota 4 ай бұрын

@@MarcWinter Technically run after does refer to the directly previous action. It is just that in most cases if a preceding action in the flow fails then the last action before the failure notifications scope would be "skipped" & thus would trigger the failure notifications scope. But for example if you set the last action in the flow before the failure notification scope to run after its preceding action is failed or skipped then the failure notification scope would not run because the immediate preceding action was successful.

@AMindGame 11 ай бұрын

You're the Goat

@nicoletimmons2344 19 күн бұрын

I'm really having trouble understanding what you are doing here and applying it to a real workflow. I have a flow that is triggered from my Power App and I want to be notified if there was an error with triggering it as seems to happen from time to time when people have a shaky internet connection or whatever. I see that I can't just add an email step directly after the trigger because the "run after" conditions are not available directly off of the trigger. When I move the steps you show in your video to the end of my workflow (which has lots of conditions between the trigger and the end of the workflow), the compose step with div(1,0) results in an error of course, and then I get an email - but that's happening even after the rest of my workflow ran successfully. I don't see how to get this to only send me an email if there is an error occurring with the trigger.

@tylerkolota 16 күн бұрын

You have to set the run-after conditions for the scope to not run when the preceding action is successful. Unless you also have something at the end of your flow which is normally skipped, in which case you may want to put it in a branch beside that skipped action. Also note with Power Apps & other manual triggers unless you set up Run-only users the email action for the notification will use the account of the person who pressed the button. You may want to go to the Run-only users part of the flow details page & add the "All Users" group as a Run-only user & set some of the connections to use your connection instead of the user account that pressed the button. More importantly, I don't know of anything in the flow you can set to check if the trigger failed. If the trigger fails, nothing in the flow ever runs. But if this is for Power Apps you should still be able to set a notification to trigger on the app's OnError property. That way it should notify you if your flow fails to trigger from the Power App. Here is an example of what I have in one of my Power Apps to notify me OnError & only notify me up to 2 times to prevent spamming me. Switch(ErrorCount

@pavanireddy885 Жыл бұрын

So, does it mention which action failed in the email trigger so that I can go back and check that particular action?

@tylerkolota Жыл бұрын

To check what action failed you can click the link in the email which brings you to the failed flow run & the exact action that failed

@JackDollarss 2 ай бұрын

Can I setup a Flow in Power Automate Cloud to notify me every time whenever there is an error in Power Automate Desktop? If so then how can I achieve this?

@tylerkolota 2 ай бұрын

@@JackDollarss If you aren’t using the PA Desktop flow inside a cloud flow & thus can’t use the template from the main post, then you can set a subflow in Power Automate Desktop to email you & then set the On Error of every action to trigger that subflow.

@JackDollarss 2 ай бұрын

@@tylerkolota That's exactly what I did! I setup a Subflow to send an email which is working fine so far but the issue is that in the On Error settings I have set "Continue Flow" as well which continues even if the flow fails! So If the flow fails then it will first send the mail and then continues the flow! If the flow continues then it fixes it self (I have set it up that way according to my process) so sending an error mail becomes useless! That's why I want to setup in Cloud to set an email when an actual error occurs in PAD!

@rebeccax3880 2 жыл бұрын

You are excellent. thank you!!

@tylerkolota 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope it’s really simple & useful for you.

@rebeccax3880 2 жыл бұрын

@@tylerkolota It took 5 minutes, very simple as I am newbie and have very little experience with flows and zero coding. I appreciate your expertise.

@thalapanenirakesh8459 2 жыл бұрын

So it works for multiple flows?

@tylerkolota 2 жыл бұрын

It works for almost any failed action (excluding Do until loop actions) within an individual flow. And it’s easy to copy & paste into several flows with a few clicks.

@abyal3kod201 2 жыл бұрын

But I have like 10 actions in my flow, how do I do this?

@tylerkolota 2 жыл бұрын

If you put the scope at the end of the flow & set the run after settings the same way I do in the video, then it should work whenever any of those 10+ actions fail.

@abyal3kod201 2 жыл бұрын

@@tylerkolota So I should put all actions in my flow in one scope?

@tylerkolota 2 жыл бұрын

@@abyal3kod201 Not if you don't want to. If you just insert the Flow Failure Notifications scope at the bottom of any flow, & set the run-after to "On failure", "On skip", & "On Timeout", then it will trigger whenever any action preceding it fails and send the error notification. So if action 5 of 10 fails, then it's going to skip actions 6-10 and get to the Flow Failure Notification scope which will run when the previous 10th action is skipped and it will send the notification.

@luupieper Жыл бұрын

It works good, thank you for the tips, but I'm still struggling with the fact that, as the notification email runs successfully the flow is shown as successful in the flow runs list. Is there a way to have them appearing as failure (as they have, actually, failed)?

@tylerkolota Жыл бұрын

The last Terminate action should be set to mark the flow run as a failure. Did you also set the "Run after" settings to not run when the preceding actions are successful?

@ScottKFraley Жыл бұрын

Everything is only Set To Go if you've got the appropriate Connector(s) plugged in. Trying to figure it out now.

@tylerkolota Жыл бұрын

Sorry, what do you mean by “connectors plugged in”? Do you mean you don’t have an account resource created for each connector? In which case, either use the 3 dot ellipse on the side of the action to find the option to create a new account connection, or create a new action for each of the connectors in question & it should walk you through the steps automatically.